Primitive defenses: cognitive aspects and therapeutic handling
Groh LS;;
international journal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy1970Vol. 8pp. -
220
ls1970internationalprimitive
Abstract
In this paper the primitive defenses first described by Melanie Klein under the label of "schizoid mechanisms" are examined. The defenses considered are splitting the pathological uses of identification and projective identification, and the psychotic forms of denial. This examination is twofold: (1 …